Sunday 25 August 2013

Lawn Hill / Kingfisher Camp 19/8/2013



The heat gets pretty intense quickly out here, with this in mind we decided to get up early and do the climb to one of the lookouts called the island stack. It was a 3km walk with a 200m very steep rock stair climb. I was feeling pretty good and made it up only stopping once to catch my breath. After taking the obligatory photos at the lookout we did the 1.6km circuit around the top. The views were absolutely magnificent, but it was really hot, I ended up taking my shirt off as there was no one else around.




 On the way down all the day trippers were starting to make their way up – we had to stop a few to tell them about the difficulty of the climb and how hot it was , as they were walking in thongs and had no water with them!

When we got back the couple who had set up next to us, Adrienne & Guy, came over for a chat. Turns out they are doing something very similar to us in the same sort of time frame. This is their first time out on a 4wd holiday, so were very keen to get some tips from us. It is so nice to meet such lovely people on your travels.
We packed up while we chatted and then moved the car to the day area.

 We headed down to the river and hopped in the boat and rowed up to the waterfall. Let me correct that – Iain rowed us to the waterfall while I held the Go Pro on the front of the boat. We got some fantastic footage that we hope to make into a you tube clip. When we got down to the waterfalls we had some fun with the Go Pro, Iain was paddling us into waterfalls, we got footage of the numerous fish that were swimming around us, as well as just general mucking around and having fun. 




When we got back we packed up the boat and I headed for a nice cold shower while Iain packed the rest of the car – yes I am spoilt. When I got back the poor man had sweat pouring off him, so he went for a quick dip and I did the last of the internet stuff. We then realised we had been having eway too much fun and it was 2.30. We hadn’t eaten so we stopped off at the kiosk and grabbed ice-creams and drinks and headed for the road. 

The road was very bad and we realised we were not going anywhere fast and as it was so late we headed for a camp spot called Kingfisher camp about 120km away. The photos in the Camp 5 book looked very nice, but we are never lulled into a false sense of security out here as you just never know. When we pulled up to the office it was dry and dusty and we thought we were in for a rough night. After paying for the night and getting directions to the camp sight we headed off. As we came up the gully we were confronted with beautiful shady, grassy sites with loads of wallabies hopping around and not very many people – it was lovely. We set up on the opposite side of the camp to everyone else, and I wandered over to the toilet block. The taps on the basin had hot and cold, so out of interest I turned on the hot tap – THERE WAS HOT WATER! I was very excited. We spent the evening taking photo’s of wallabies and just relaxing.

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